The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief on February 5, 2018 in Ross William Ulbricht v. United States of America, on petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. The petitioner was sentenced to life in prison after the FBI tracked his location without a […]
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NLG Military Law Task Force to Obama: Pardon Chelsea Manning/Commute Sentence to Time Served
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 December 16, 2016 Dear President Obama: The National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force joins more than 102,000 people who have called on you to pardon Chelsea Manning or, at the very least, commute the remainder of her sentence. You are well […]
Pres. Obama: Free Leonard Peltier, Oscar López Rivera, Veronza Bowers and Dr. Mutulu Shakur
December 6, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, I write on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association, as well as its first racially integrated one, to ask that you pardon or commute the sentences of […]
Watching the Watchers: Monitoring Police Performance as Public Servants
By Karl T. Muth & Nancy Jack Introduction If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, what is a video worth? Apparently, quite a bit more. The proliferation of cell phone cameras has raised a new debate: whether people can record the activities and conduct of police in public areas. Several cases are making their […]
The Color of Pain: Blacks and the U.S. Health Care System—Can the Affordable Care Act Help to Heal a History of Injustice? Part II
By Jennifer M. Smith Part I of this article can be found in the last issue of the National Lawyers Guild Review. See Jennifer M. Smith, The Color of Pain: Blacks and the U.S. Health Care System—Can the Affordable Care Act Help to Heal a History of Injustice? Part I, 72 NLG Rev. 238 (2015) […]
NLG Review: Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2016)
The Color of Pain: Blacks and the U.S. Health Care System—Can the Affordable Care Act Help to Heal a History of Injustice? Part II by Jennifer M. Smith Watching the Watchers: Monitoring Police Performance as Public Servants by Karl T. Muth & Nancy Jack Ending the Unconstitutional Torture of Three-Drug Lethal Injections: A Rebuke of […]
USA v. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mohammed Yousry, and Lynne Stewart (March 2003)
USA v. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mohammed Yousry, and Lynne Stewart: This brief is in support of attorney Lynne Stewart’s motion to dismiss the charges in Counts One and Two of the indictment against her. It argues that the material support counts of the indictment fail to meet constitutional muster for three reasons: 1) the statute’s […]
Rumsfeld v. Padilla (April 2004)
Rumsfeld v. Padilla: This brief argues that the prolonged and indefinite incommunicado detention of Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant–an American citizen arrested on American soil–was without due process of law or any of the other procedural protections guaranteed under the United States Constitution to civilian detainees. The brief argues that there is no constitutional, […]
Abu-Jamal v. Horn (July 2006)
Abu-Jamal v. Horn: This brief addresses improper statements by the prosecutor during the 1982 trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The brief gives special consideration to the prosecutor’s attempts to guide the jurors to distance themselves from the significance of their decision – whether or not to send a person to death. The prosecutor told the jury […]
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (October 2006)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1: U.S. Supreme Court, No. 05-908 2006 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1040 The case involves affirmative action programs designed to end de facto discrimination in public elementary and secondary schools. The NLG opposes efforts to misuse the 14th Amendment to prevent such programs. This […]